I have updated my previous post … I was in a meeting and could not finish so please re-read it.
God is not a servant, but God has served humanity since the beginning.
God is not SERVING humanity. God gives to his creation (and Humanity specifically) that which they require from His bountiful source.
Someone who SERVES gives from another’s bounty. A servant serves from his master’s bounty. A servant is paid to serve… A servant serves from the directive of a higher authority.
A Father does not ‘SERVE’ his children. I’m sure you know exactly why you chose to misuse the term and would not use if this in any other situation. I urge you not to play such silly games as it will give you a reputation you really do not want to be associated with!!!
How do you know that. I would think that Pharaoh would have kept him on because he proved himself so good.
He would have served the King of Egypt as second in charge for many years more,
But I'm not going by things we are not told. We are told that Jesus
It is evident that the rulership of Egypt would have been handed back to Pharoah after the famine was over. Even you yourself says that Joseph would even be only A SECOND in charge… not ‘IN CHARGE’. Moreover, the then present Pharoah died and the new Pharoah did not regard the deeds of Joseph. I’m sure you can see his that would be… the new Pharoah has no regard for nor delight in Israelite greatness! This can be seen by the fact that the next chapter in the time of Moses, the Israelites were in SLAVERY to the Egyptians.
Ezek 37:23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God. 24
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. 25They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.…
Yes Jesus is still called God's servant because He is still a man.
Yes, Jesus is a man and as a man
who does the Will of his Father he
is called ‘
Son’.
You remember Phil 2 where we are told that the pre human Jesus took the form of a servant and became a man.
No, Brian2, YOU and other trinity believers are misled to believe in a pre-human Jesus. The truth is that the verse is saying that Jesus, a man ENDOWED WITH THE POWER OF GOD (the form of God), DID NOT CONSIDER TO MISUSE THAT POWER (aka: the temptations in the wilderness!) BUT INSTEAD CONSIDERED HIMSELF AS A SERVANT (and give of his Father’s holy resource!). I think someone redefined the word ‘GRASP AT’ to mean ‘Holding onto’ but the truth is that it means ‘TO REACH OUT
TO TRY TO TAKE HOLD OF’. So the true reading is that ‘Though he had the power of God he did not think TO TRY TO BECOME LIKE GOD
BUT INSTEAD MADE HIMSELF AS A SERVANT… it is a ridiculous thing to say that he WAS GOD BUT DECIDED THAT BEING GOD WAS NOT WORTHWHILE… that he did not desire to HOLD ONTO BEING GOD..!!!?
Moreover, Jesus is supposed to have ‘EMPTIED HIMSELF’ OF BEING GOD yet is also supposed to have REMAINED BEING GOD (100% God or any percentage GOD is s nonsense argument - there us no such thing as ‘BEING PARTIALLY GOD’. And ‘God in man cannot be God’ …
God is Spirit and Spirit alone and
the Father and the Father alone.
Then He rose from the dead as a glorified man and went to heaven as one like a son of man and was given a kingdom.
Dan 7:13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,[
a] coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an
everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and
his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
I’m so glad you recognise the prophesy, Brian2.
Which Kingdom is He ruling over now? To me there is just one Kingdom and that is the one Jesus rules over now.
Which Kingdom is He going to hand back to God the Father?
Jesus is ruling over the Father’s kingdom which is Heaven… He is battling the angelic order which has been abused by Satan. This Heaven kingdom INCLUDES the earthly kingdom over which Satan is a Steward… which accounts for all the wrongness going on in BOTH Heaven and on earth.
Which kingdom is Jesus handing back: Well, hd is handing it back to GOD, to the Father: YHWH, therefore it is the Father’s kingdom: Heaven.. in which earth is likened to a ROOM in a MANSION of his Father!!!
When He becomes subject to God the Father, to me it sounds like things are returned to the way they were before Jesus came to earth, when the Son was subject to His Father as a Son.
You mean that there is no change… Brian2, your struggles are because you are trying to create your own narrative - and it’s not working!!
Was the world in Egypt the same after the famine as before it? A new world order is to be put in place. Pharoah regains FULL AUTHORITY and RULERSHIP POWERS… notice that in ALL EXAMPLES the THRONE OF THE PRIMARY RULER is NEVER USURPED: ‘
EXCEPT FOR MY THRONE you are to rule
AS THOUGH YOU WERE PHAROAH HIMSELF’. In the same way, Jesus rules AS THOUGH he were God BUT IS NOT GOD since GOD is ETERNALLY ENTHRONED in the primary rulership position.
1Cor 15:24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 28 When
rall things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Yes Brian2, Jesus is currently ruling AS IF HE WERE GOD BUT IS NOT GOD. He rules IN POSITION OF GOD - not ‘IS GOD’!! So when Jesus fulfils his task he HANDS HIS COMPLETED WORK TO HIM WHO GAVE HIM THE WORK and the power and authority is taken from Jesus So God is full ruler in all aspects.
How are you reading those words you quote and not understanding the simplicity and truth of them??
Eph 1:20,21. . . that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Brian2, be careful when reading and providing info from highly summaries sources. You cannot fully express what Jesus does in Heaven from a few words … a verse… in a book in scriptures: Have you checked out the extended version as shown in the book of Revelation!!
Jesus is seated in the Heavenly realm … What can you not understand: Imagine a wealthy man who adopts a youngster and calls him ‘Son’ because the lad so greatly pleased the man. The wealthy man sets the lad in the highest position in his company (that highest position is evidently LESS THAN HIS OWN!!!) and gives the lad the highest title in the company, way above all other titles in the company.
And what is that title? In the case of Jesus, there is no higher name than ‘YHWH’. But, Brian2, IT IS A NAME… it doesn’t mean Jesus suddenly becomes THE PERSON who had that name from the time he gave it to Moses. The name MEANS ‘Always is’… aka: ETERNAL. But ‘Eternal’ from that point onwards… it isn’t backwards applicable… Jesus is NOW IMMORTAL AND WILL REMAIN IMMORTAL ETERNALLY. The angels are Spirits which are immortal but are DESTROYABLE as shown after their judgement of those who are wicked.
Rev 1:5,6. . . and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
YES BRIAN2… Jesus is given a KINGDOM TO RULE OVER… the kingdom of earth … on the ethereal seat of his ancestral Father, KING DAVID.
Brian2, you quote scriptures and do not understand what you are quoting - thinking you are denying exactly what I’ve been saying to you!!!
Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
And that "all things" includes things in the spiritual realm.
Brian2, Cor 1:26 is FALSELY claiming the created world is a creation of Jesus.., Jesus DID NOT EXIST before creation. Jesus is PROPHESIED ALL THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT. You should have noticed by now that ALL CLAIMS THAT JESUS CREATED AS A PRE-EXISTENT /what?/ is from the NEW TESTAMENT which is a GREEK TRANSLATION BY TRINITARIAN CLAIMS UNDERWRITTEN BY THE ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER EMPEROR CONSTANTINE who had no interest in Christianity - he was a PAGAN ROMAN MULTIPLE-GODS BELIEVER.